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Except they won't. Way too many voters like my daughter (minimally
employed) that benefit to get rid of them so easily. Though i admit that
the sticker shock may disenchant a lot of them.
When they poll about the ACA there's always a big majority in favor of
most of the provisions, including allowing children to remain on their
parent's policy (which isn't free--the insurer can charge for this). The
ban on denying insurance based on pre-existing conditions is also very
popular. There's a slight majority against the mandate, but only very
slight.
Overall, the Tea Partiers keep insisting that a majority is opposed to
the ACA, but they leave out the fact that 16% of those that say they
oppose the ACA opposie it because they think it doesn't go far
enough--they would prefer single-payer (like most industrialized
countries have). Add that 16% to the 43% that say they support ACA and
you're at 59%, which would be considered a landslide in presidential
politics.
It's not an exaggeration that the only real objection to Obamacare by
the right wing is the "Obama" part of it.
What's really going to be on voter's minds in 2014, assuming they
haven't forgotten about it by then, is the way the Republican House
behaved and forced the government shutdown and how they allowed the U.S.
to come to the brink of default. Hopefully that will translate into the
Democrats winning the control of the House of Representatives as well as
retaining the Senate. The only hope to move the country forward is to
get rid of the obstructionist Tea Bagger Republicans. Normal Republicans
would be okay if they were not being forced to do stupid things by the
Tea Baggers.